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Subtest Listening Comprehension

Early Reading Skills

Reading Comprehension Maths Problem Solving Alphabet Writing Fluency Sentence Composition

Word Reading

Administration Age (Ages 4-17+)

(Ages 4-8)

(Ages 6-17+)

(Ages 4-17+) (Ages 4-8) (Ages 6-17+)

(Ages 6-17+)

Description

The Listening Comprehension subtest contains two components: Receptive Vocabulary: Measures listening vocabulary. The student points to the picture that best illustrates the meaning of each word he or she hears. Oral Discourse Comprehension: Measures the ability to make inferences about, and remember details from, oral sentences and discourse. The student listens to sentences and passages and orally responds to comprehension questions. Measures several areas deemed important for developing reading skills: naming letters, letter-sound correspondence (alphabetic principle), phonological awareness, and word reading comprehension. The student names letters of the alphabet, identifies and generates rhyming words, identifies words with the same beginning and ending sounds, blends sounds, matches sounds with letters and letter blends, and matches written words with pictures that illustrate their meaning. Measures untimed reading comprehension of various types of text, including fictional stories, informational text, advertisements, and how-to passages. The student may read passages aloud or silently. After each passage, the student orally responds to literal and inferential comprehension questions that are read aloud by the examiner. Measures untimed maths problem-solving skills in the following domains: basic concepts, everyday applications, geometry, and algebra. The student provides oral and pointing responses. Measures the ability to write letters of the alphabet within a 30-second time limit. The student may write letters in any order, in cursive or print, in upper case or lower case. The Sentence Composition subtest contains two components: Sentence Combining: Measures sentence formulation skills and written syntactic maturity. The student combines two or three sentences into one sentence that preserves the meaning of the original sentences. Sentence Building: Measures sentence formulation skills and written syntactic ability. For each item, the student is asked to write one sentence that uses a target word with appropriate context. Measures speed and accuracy of decontextualised word recognition. The student reads aloud from a list of words that increase in difficulty. The list of words is read without a time limit. The examiner records the student's progress after 30 seconds and continues administration until the discontinue rule is met or the last item is administered.

Essay Composition Pseudoword Decoding

(Ages 8-17+) (Ages 6-17+)

Numeracy Oral Expression

(Ages 5-17+) (Ages 4-17+)

Oral Reading Fluency

(Ages 6-17+)

Spelling

(Ages 5-17+)

Maths Fluency ? Addition (Ages 6-17+)

Maths Fluency ? Subtraction

Maths Fluency ? Multiplication

(Ages 6-17+) (Ages 8-17+)

Measures spontaneous, compositional writing skills within a 10-minute time limit.

Measures the ability to decode nonsense words. The student reads aloud from a list of pseudowords that increase in difficulty. The list of pseudowords is read without a time limit. The examiner records the student's progress after 30 seconds and continues administration until the discontinue rule is met or the last item is administered.

Measures untimed, written maths calculation skills in the following domains: basic skills, basic operations with integers, geometry, algebra, and calculus.

The Oral Expression subtest contains three components: Expressive Vocabulary: Measures speaking vocabulary and word retrieval ability. The student says the word that best corresponds to a given picture and definition. Oral Word Fluency: Measures efficiency of word retrieval (i.e. how easily he or she can produce words) and flexibility of thought processes. The student names as many things as possible belonging to a given category (i.e. animals, colours) within 60 seconds. Sentence Repetition: Measures oral syntactic knowledge and short-term memory. The student listens to sentences that increase in length and complexity and repeats each sentence verbatim.

Measures speed, accuracy, fluency, and prosody of contextualised oral reading. The student reads passages aloud, and then orally responds to comprehension questions after each passage. Fluency is calculated as the average number of words read correctly per minute. A qualitative scale is completed by the examiner to assess the student's reading prosody. Comprehension questions are asked only to encourage reading for meaning; comprehension performance is not scored quantitatively.

Measures written spelling of letter sounds and single words. The student hears each letter sound within the context of a word, and each word within the context of a sentence, and then the student writes the target letter sound or word.

Measures the speed and accuracy of a student's maths (addition) calculations. The student solves written addition problems within a 60-second time limit.

Measures the speed and accuracy of a student's maths (subtraction) calculations. The student solves written subtraction problems within a 60-second time limit.

Measures the speed and accuracy of a student's maths (multiplication) calculations. The student solves written multiplication problems within a 60-second time limit.

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